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It can be useful to run the build of your package on an external server, a VM or a chroot. For instance if you are running an rpm based distribution and want to build a Debian package.

To do do this, you can define the remote_exec option.

The following options are used to configure the remote execution of the build:

remote_exec

the template of a command used to execute a command on a remote host. The command to be executed is available in the option exec_cmd. The option exec_as_root indicate whether the script should be run as a normal user, or as root. Some commands such as the pre and post scripts need to be run as root. The name of the command we are running is available in the option exec_name.

remote_mktemp

the template of a command to create a temporary directory. If undefined, mktemp -d -p /var/tmp will be used.

remote_put

the template of a command used to put a file on a remote host. The source file is available in the put_src option and the destination directory in the put_dst option. The default is to use tar with the remote_exec option.

remote_get

the template of a command used to fetch a file from a remote host. The source directory is available in the get_src option, and the destination directory in the get_dst option. The default is to use tar with the remote_exec option.

remote_start

the template of a command that will start the remote host before we can access it. This can be useful for instance if you need to start a VM, or fetch a container. If access to an input file is needed, the remote_srcdir option is pointing to a temporary directory containing the input files. The input files are hard links to their original location, if it is on the same filesystem, and link_input_files has not been set to 0.

remote_finish

the template of a command that will stop the remote host after we finished the build. This can be useful for instance if you want to shutdown a VM or remove a temporary container.

The remote_* options can access the build_id option which is a unique identifier of the current build.

rbm includes a rbmcontainer script which allows creating rootless containers (ie. creating some Linux namespaces, without requiring root priviledges).

It requires the newuidmap and newgidmap commands. On Debian systems this means installing the uidmap package.

Some predefined remote_* options to use containers are available. They can be enabled by setting container/use_container to true.

When the use of containers is enabled, the input_files of your build should include a chroot tarball, with a filename starting with container-image_. When starting a build, this chroot tarball will be extracted to a temporary directory, and the build script will be run chrooted in this directory.

The following options can be used:

container/disable_network/script_name

Disable the use of network when running script_name (replace it with the name of the script). By default network is disabled in the build script and enabled in all other scripts.

container/global_disable

When this option is set, container/use_container and containers are not used.

Some predefined remote_* template to run the builds in docker are available. To enable building in docker, you can set the remote_docker option to 1. The following options will then be used:

docker_image

The name of the docker image you want to use.

docker_save_image

By default the docker image used during the build will be removed when it is finished. If you want to keep it, you can define an image name in this option.

docker_opts

If you want to add some docker command line options, you can define them in this option. This could be useful for instance if you don’t want to use the default docker instance.

docker_user

The user that should be used to run the build inside the container. If that user does not exist, it will be created automatically. The default is rbm.

For example, if you want to build your software on Fedora 20 using docker, you can do this:

remote_docker: 1
docker_image: fedora:20

Some predefined remote_* templates are available and can be enabled by setting the remote_ssh option to 1. For instance you can add the following lines to your configuration:

ssh_host: some_hostname
remote_ssh: 1

The following options will be used:

ssh_host

The hostname where to connect. It can also contain a username.

ssh_port

Optionally you can set a port using this option. You could also do it by editing your .ssh/config file.

ssh_options

Optionally you can set some ssh options, for the exec command.

You can use the remote_chroot option if you want to build in a chroot. This option requires that you have sudo access to the chroot command.

The following options will be used:

chroot_path

The path to the chroot directory.

chroot_user

The user in the chroot which should run the build.

Example:

chroot_path: /chroots/debian-wheezy
chroot_user: build
steps:
  deb:
    remote_chroot: 1

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